On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Peter Laws wrote:
A physical blocking of the signal, then. And there is enough difference in
their respective altitudes that signals from HI can get to/from SES-1 because
it's so much higher in its orbit. Hmm.
They hope. But really, that probablem is small compared to...
So inevitably, my hunch is that if you have a full-power signal on
Galaxy 15 on the same signal as NOAAport, we could be hosed no matter
what; it's just that the outage time will be less if it's sent from
Hawaii to start.
That's why I was confused because I came to a similar conclusion - hosed no
matter where you send the signal from.
And we're just going to have to wait and see on this one. The hope is that
the angle is big enough to let the signal UP. Coming down...who knows.
At least no one is sending anything inbound to G-15. Outbound is an
entirely different story.
home base. But the NWS doesn't have a backup bird to go to...and that's
way so not cool.
Uh, yeah. Was this fallout from the GOES-R saga? Seems like there oughta be
two paths from the branch offices to the main office (even if one is fiber).
One *is* fiber...but NWS offices have just enough bandwidth to send the
data out, and barely enough to a let a little back in...maybe. That's why
nobody at the NWS has ANY data outside of their 88D's on Sunday afternoon.
And if their 88D broke when NOAAport is down and they're trying to
issue warnings, may God help them. They'd have to phone an adjacent office
and have them issue warnings, IF they have any overlapping coverage with
their radar.
I've been told that there's no money to have a second path. I kind of do:
EMWIN. But the NWS can't even access that during an outage.
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